Improvement in combined corn-crib and threshing-floor



JORDAN 6L CAMPBELL.

CornC.rib. No. 85,011. '1 Patented Dec. 15, 1868.

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OHIO'.

Letters Patent No. 85,011, dated December l5, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN.COMBINBDCORNCR1B AND THRESHING-PLOOIL The Schedulereferred to in Vthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'Li/'hom 'it may concern:

Beit known that we, JOSEPH R. J ORDEN and J AMES CA M n BELL,of WestAlexandria, in the countyof Preble, and in the State' of Ohio,have-invented certain new and useful Improvements inCorn- Crib andThreshing-Floor Attachment; and do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description-thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Our invention consists in the arrangement of a hinged door andstationary base, to be used 'for threshingthe corn from the cob, andapplied to a corn-crib, as Ahereinafter desclibed.

In order to enable others skilled in. the artvto make and use ourinvention, 'we will now proceed to describe its construction andoperation, referringt'o the annexed drawings,lwhich form a part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 is an end View ofthe corn-crib,with thresh-A ing-floor attached.

Figure '2 is aside View, and

Figure 3, a bottom view of the same.

A -A represent stone or wooden pillars, of suitable height anddimensions, on which the sills B B are laid.

These sills are'of any desiredwidth, lso that the crossjoists O G canbelet into them their width.

The joists extend beyond the sills a suitable distance, and thebase-boards D D are fixed on their ends,'leav ing a recess between thebase-board and 'the sills, as shown in fig. 3.

The pillars AA are not to be placed at the corners, but at a suit-abledistance fromthem, and it will -thus be seen that the rats cannot 'reachthe base-board or edge of the base-board D.

The otherpart is an open door, G, which is constructed of slats,suitable distance apart, or their equivalents, as shown in iig. 3. Thisopen fioor, which is provided with legs, 1 1, to rest on the solid floorF, is hinged at the lower edge of the crib' in such a manner that f itcan be easily taken .o or put on, raised or lowered, as-Inay be desired.

1f the corn is tramped, or threshed with ilails, or run Athroughacorn-Sheller on the vopen floor G, the corn falls vthrough onto thesolid oor, and the cobs remain on the open floor.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new', and desire to secure by Let.

ters Patent, is-v *Y The combination ofthe crib E, grated ioor G, andsupporting-base F, all'arranged and used as specified. In testimony thatwe claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set-our hands,rthis 6th day ofJuly, 1868.

JOS. R. JORDAN. JAMES CAMPBELL. Witnesses:

J @HN V. CAMPBELL, LEVI BLACKFORD.

